GRDA
Floodwater Release Bulletin - 07/06/04
Contact:
Justin Alberty
GRDA
Public Information/Media Services
(918)
256-5545
At 10:30 AM
(7/6/04) Grand Lake elevation was 747.25.
Currently, flood control pool is at 19.96 percent capacity.
Currently, the United States Army Corps of Engineers has directed three
(3) gates to be opened at Pensacola Dam.
Total inflows into Grand Lake are 24,760 cubic feet per second (cfs).
Current releases through Pensacola floodgates are 7,575 cfs.
Pensacola Dam has six (6) units generating, releasing 13,143 cfs.
Total Pensacola releases through gates and generation is 20,718 cfs.
Lake Hudson elevation at 10:30 AM
was 623.76.
Currently, flood control pool is at 23 percent capacity.
There is one gate open at Robert S. Kerr Dam.
Total inflows into Lake Hudson are 23,200 cfs.
Current releases through Kerr floodgates are 5,030 cfs.
Kerr Dam has three (3) units generating, releasing 22,140 cfs.
Total Kerr releases through gates and generation is 27,170 cfs.
The
Grand River watershed consists of approximately 12,000 square miles of
runoff in parts of Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Of that total, over
half7,000 square milesis uncontrolled runoff, meaning there is no
reservoir to control it above the Pensacola Dam. However, the remaining
5,000 square miles of runoff passes through the John Redmond Dam,
located near Burlington, Kansas, prior to reaching the Grand River
system in Oklahoma.
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